Computer illiterate people who think they know things [v3]
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[QUOTE=Necrotic Fever;20938529]Guy: Vista is better than XP.
Me: What.[/QUOTE]
he's right. you're just stuck on the LOLHATEVISTA bandwagon.
There is a difference between being tech illiterate and having a personal preference to operating systems.
Win7 is the best Windows OS right now. (LOL OPINION HATE)
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;20938621]Win7 is the best Windows OS right now.[/QUOTE]
Still have vista, goddamnit why do I have to be so poor.
[QUOTE=Wonky;20938638]Still have vista, goddamnit why do I have to be so poor.[/QUOTE]
Stuck on xubuntu, goddammmit why do I have to be so poor.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;20938653]Stuck on xubuntu, goddammmit why do I have to be so poor.[/QUOTE]
hey don't knock linux
/thebigchill
[QUOTE=Wonky;20938620]There is a difference between being tech illiterate and having a personal preference to operating systems.[/QUOTE]
I should tell my dad that. I want to use Ubuntu but he says 'use Windows'. I claim there isn't much of a difference, yet he still says to use Windows.
I'm sick of Windows. This is my own computer and he isn't letting me use a different OS just because dual booting it with XP Pro killed the hard drive. Hm, what better solution than to forbid your son from using a free, perfectly fine operating system?
/rant
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Keep in mind this is from the guy (meaning my dad) who claims that anything free is immediately a virus. Oh, how I wish I could teach both parents about computers. :sigh:
So in CAD today we were instructed to read a few pages about architecture and one of them talks about a CAD setup, they called the tower a CPU.
That's true because the CPU is in the tower. :downs:
[QUOTE=AmericanInfantry;20940665]That's true because the CPU is in the tower. :downs:[/QUOTE]
No it clearly states that the Tower itself was the CPU not the cpu being inside the tower, it said nothing about this.
[QUOTE=AmericanInfantry;20940382]I should tell my dad that. I want to use Ubuntu but he says 'use Windows'. I claim there isn't much of a difference, yet he still says to use Windows.
I'm sick of Windows. This is my own computer and he isn't letting me use a different OS just because dual booting it with XP Pro killed the hard drive. Hm, what better solution than to forbid your son from using a free, perfectly fine operating system?
/rant
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Keep in mind this is from the guy (meaning my dad) who claims that anything free is immediately a virus. Oh, how I wish I could teach both parents about computers. :sigh:[/QUOTE]
Just install it anyway when he's not looking.
[QUOTE=limulus54;20938711]hey don't knock linux
/thebigchill[/QUOTE]
I wasn't knocking linux. I was just saying that I can't afford to even play the games I've already paid for (Wine doesn't agree with my laptop :sigh:)
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;20941047]Just install it anyway when he's not looking.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but what could I install it on? He won't let me purchase an HD.
If it's my computer, I can customize it to my liking. Besides, I'll have the other HD with XP on it in case the Linux one goes, which it probably won't.
He's concerned about the HD crashing. :doh:
[QUOTE=AmericanInfantry;20943557]Yeah but what could I install it on? He won't let me purchase an HD.
If it's my computer, I can customize it to my liking. Besides, I'll have the other HD with XP on it in case the Linux one goes, which it probably won't.
He's concerned about the HD crashing. :doh:[/QUOTE]
Explode into a fast-talking rant where you explain exactly what linux is, what ubuntu is, what GRUB does and explain the drawbacks and advantages of the different filesystems used in Windows and Linux, so he understands that you really can't screw it up unless you format the whole disk without partitioning first. And reassure him that you'll back everything up first.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;20927320]I feel so sorry for you.
It is now your duty to teach him what the internet is.[/QUOTE]
Conveniently, I am 23 and moved out 5 years ago. So I can escape his tech illiterate ramblings by hanging up the phone.
Went on a programming class with 3 of my friends.
Okay it was really cool and we learned a bunch of stuff.
But in the beginning of the class he told us to open up Local Disk C: Program files and go to the program(this happened a couple of years ago, don't remember 100%). Almost everyone except for us 3 asked where Local Disk C: was or what it was...
I got pretty irritated, yea.
So I'm sitting in class and my friend asks me for this game I had on my USB stick. So I copy it over to my computer, plug his stick in and copy it to his stick. I forgot to delete it.
Few days later the shitty computer technician's anti-virus thought it was a virus. I proceed to get sent to a jail type school for 3 days.
Now every time ANYONE plugs in a USB stick, it apparently has a virus on it and needs to be formatted.
So I ask the teacher what kind of virus protection hey have and he tells me, "it's all part of the server"
Funny thing is, being caught with weed at my school is a punishment of cleaning up chairs at lunch.
Him: "So this guy hacked me the other day because I flamed him on a WoW forum."
Me: "Hacked what?"
"My PC"
"...What part of it?"
"All of it - he was remote controlling it"
"...How is that even possible, if he didn't even know your IP"
"He had HARDWARE"
:colbert:
[QUOTE=Janooba;20946475]
Few days later the shitty computer technician's anti-virus thought it was a virus. I proceed to get sent to a jail type school for 3 days.
Funny thing is, being caught with weed at my school is a punishment of cleaning up chairs at lunch.[/QUOTE]
Ri-fucking-diculous.
a few days ago in my Computer Engineering class. we were designing our dream computers, basically getting anything we ever wanted in a computer, as long as it could actually be built. We did presentations, and apparently this one kid had no clue what he was doing. He got an Intel Xeon cpu for a MB which it wouldnt fit in (and Xeon is old as hell), but his little thing with his graphics card was the best:
Guy: This is my graphics card blah bla blah *specs*
Teacher: Now how would that go into the MB?
Guy: um...
Guy: Oh yea, a um, ribbon cable!
Class: LOL
Teacher: no
Guy: um, it... wouldn't?
Teacher: *facepalm*
Class: LOL
Guy in class: *beats head on file cabinet*
(the answer was PCIE 2.0)
I wouldnt say that he thought he knew the stuff, but it was still funny as hell.
[QUOTE=crazymonkay;20947709]a few days ago in my Computer Engineering class. we were designing our dream computers, basically getting anything we ever wanted in a computer, as long as it could actually be built. We did presentations, and apparently this one kid had no clue what he was doing. He got an Intel Xeon cpu for a MB which it wouldnt fit in (and Xeon is old as hell), but his little thing with his graphics card was the best:
Guy: This is my graphics card blah bla blah *specs*
Teacher: Now how would that go into the MB?
Guy: um...
Guy: Oh yea, a um, ribbon cable!
Class: LOL
Teacher: no
Guy: um, it... wouldn't?
Teacher: *facepalm*
Class: LOL
Guy in class: *beats head on file cabinet*
(the answer was PCIE 2.0)
I wouldnt say that he thought he knew the stuff, but it was still funny as hell.[/QUOTE]
I wish I had a class like that, next year I gotta take some retarded computer course. It'd be a fucking easy A.
But thats not the point, I get A's in my CAD class and don't do the homework, or half the projects :V but having a class like that would be great. My CAD class also had a great bunch of people, when they're not there and we have a sub the class is completely silent the entire day which happened today, it was fucking scary. Usually we're as loud as fuck, but thats another thread I'm getting off track.
[QUOTE=limulus54;20938616]he's right. you're just stuck on the LOLHATEVISTA bandwagon.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=AmericanInfantry;20940382]I should tell my dad that. I want to use Ubuntu but he says 'use Windows'. I claim there isn't much of a difference, yet he still says to use Windows.
I'm sick of Windows. This is my own computer and he isn't letting me use a different OS just because dual booting it with XP Pro killed the hard drive. Hm, what better solution than to forbid your son from using a free, perfectly fine operating system?
/rant
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Keep in mind this is from the guy (meaning my dad) who claims that anything free is immediately a virus. Oh, how I wish I could teach both parents about computers. :sigh:[/QUOTE]
Explain to him that you know what you are doing and that there is virtually zero risk with incredible benefits, plus there is the whole concept of dual-booting. It's not hard, just do it.
These tech-illiterate parent problems are really weird to me since my dad is a software/hardware engineer who has worked in every operating system since 1992.
In our french class a video wasn't working on my teacher's computer because it was in movie maker format, and everyone started yelling that she needed windows vista to run media files. I was raging so hard :\
My tech teacher thinks we're getting viruses on the school computers through sites like armorgames.com and such. What she hasn't figured out is where the viruses are coming from. Some loser (who annoys everybody) is bringing a bunch of his... stolen software on one of those 500 GB portable hard drives. The teacher said herself "the viruses seem to only affect computers he logs into". Has she seriously not figured out that its HIM bringing viruses on his hard drive? Now the entire class gets in trouble over it and we get stupid internet blocks put up.
My school's running Ubuntu on the library computers.
Couple of football guys come in and sit down at the computers.
**turn on**
Football Guy 1: What the fuck is this shit?
Football Guy 2: I think it's the newest windows.
Doing "Computer Programming 1", so many things I could mention.
1. Teacher bitches about naming conventions so fucking much.
2. Learning VB.net.
3. Some of my friends in the class, which are more PC literate, would go to name variables as lblPrice or txtPrice or whatever, just a naming convention used for objects.
4. Kid that sits next to me is fucking sheltered it's not funny, and I think he has aspergers, I wouldn't mind if he didn't ask me for help with everything by poking me.
5. Yesterday, I spent the entire class remote desktop'd to my home computer and learned C# instead.
6. We have to make "TOE" charts for every program. EVERY. PROGRAM. And all it is is listing what objects you will use, what variables and what actions do what. I'm not even doing them, I hope they aren't worth too much of the grade.
7. It has been two months since the beginning of the course, we have progressed 3 chapters into a book on Visual Basic. 3 Chapters. In... About 72 hours or whatever, 80 minutes per class, 5 times a week, for more then two months.
On the contrary. We have had a sub 2-3 times, which means Quake3 or CS Lan games.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;20944176]Explode into a fast-talking rant where you explain exactly what linux is, what ubuntu is, what GRUB does and explain the drawbacks and advantages of the different filesystems used in Windows and Linux, so he understands that you really can't screw it up unless you format the whole disk without partitioning first. And reassure him that you'll back everything up first.[/QUOTE]
It could work. Is there an option to partition the disc in the Ubuntu setup?
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King of this page!
Worst comes to worst you can always just wait until you move out and are actually able to do what you want. In all honesty though, you said that you broke your old HD or something? He's probably just skeptical that something similar might happen and you can't really blame him. He knows that when you installed linux last time the HD broke, so saying that you're going to install it differently wont make him change his opinion because he doesn't know the difference.
On another note, living on your own rocks.
[QUOTE=AmericanInfantry;20953150]It could work. Is there an option to partition the disc in the Ubuntu setup?
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King of this page![/QUOTE]
Yeah, when installing it just choose "choose between Windows and Ubuntu on startup" (or something to that effect; I can't remember the exact wording)
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[QUOTE=Kybalt;20951935]Doing "Computer Programming 1", so many things I could mention.
1. Teacher bitches about naming conventions so fucking much.
2. Learning VB.net.
3. Some of my friends in the class, which are more PC literate, would go to name variables as lblPrice or txtPrice or whatever, just a naming convention used for objects.
4. Kid that sits next to me is fucking sheltered it's not funny, and I think he has aspergers, I wouldn't mind if he didn't ask me for help with everything by poking me.
5. Yesterday, I spent the entire class remote desktop'd to my home computer and learned C# instead.
6. We have to make "TOE" charts for every program. EVERY. PROGRAM. And all it is is listing what objects you will use, what variables and what actions do what. I'm not even doing them, I hope they aren't worth too much of the grade.
7. It has been two months since the beginning of the course, we have progressed 3 chapters into a book on Visual Basic. 3 Chapters. In... About 72 hours or whatever, 80 minutes per class, 5 times a week, for more then two months.
On the contrary. We have had a sub 2-3 times, which means Quake3 or CS Lan games.[/QUOTE]
At least you're actually [B]learning[/B] programming. Through the whole year all we've been doing is the ECDL. The whole thing is just learning outdated versions of Microsoft Office. Apparently the whole thing is worth one GCSE. I could finish the whole course in 3 weeks if I really tried, but from what I've heard there's really no point because employers don't value that qualification much at all.
Plus, the whole course is web based and [B]only works on Internet Explorer.[/B] Meaning I can't do it from home.
I WANT TO LEARN PROGRAMMING GODDAMMIT.
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